About me

Academic background

By training I am a
physicist. All my academic education
took place at the Georg-August Universität Göttingen.
First I studied mathematics and theoretical physics up to
the Vordiplom. After that I studied English literature and
History for one and a half years. I then continued my physics
studies, finishing that with a Diplom in theoretical astrophysics.
Having obtained my diplom I began to study biophysics with
emphasis on protein crystallography. These studies I finished
with a Ph.D. and subsequently engaged in academic and industrial
research in this field for about 20 years, in Germany, the USA
and Japan.

Computing background

Since I was a
teenager I always had great interest in computers.
As a teenager I took a correspondence course about programing
Hollerith machines. From the first semester I took classes in
programming, initially Algol-60, Fortran and Univac assembler.
The code for my diploma thesis was my first larger project and
amounted to roughly 2,000 lines of Fortran on punched cards and
some assembler routines. I have written software during all my
career, initially in Fortran, later in C, C++, CUDA, Javascript,
OpenCL and Python. I also have great interest in visualization
and user interface, using OpenGL, OpenCV, Qt and the Qt wrappers
PyQt and PySide for Python.

This site is no longer actively maintained.
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Arno Pähler -
Brief Summary

Here you find information
about myself, my academic and
professional background, about projects I have engaged in and about my
professional
interests and skills as a software developer. Click on my image for
more info.

The site was created with Microsoft's Web
Matrix 3 and uses
Javascript extensively. The Javascript frameworks that I worked with
are jQuery,
AngularJS, Bootstrap, jQueryUI and node.js.
Javascript and CSS files loaded are stored locally on arnopaehler.de
and
no cookies are set by this site.

NOTE: This is still work in progress.
Please, excuse the unprofessional landing page.The landing page
background shows a tiled image of a Hubble image
of part of the sky.

Education

By training I am a
physicist. All my academic education took place
at the Georg-August Universität Göttingen. I first studied
mathematics
and theoretical physics up to the Vordiplom. After that I studied
English
literature and History for one and a half years. I continued my
physics
studies, finishing with a Diplom in theoretical astrophysics.
The background that you see is a tiled repeat of part of the sky as
seen
by the Hubble space telescope.

Skills

Currently, since, 2006,
I work as a self-employed software developer.
My primary programming languages are C++, Python, CUDA and OpenCL.
Graphics frameworks and tools that I have used in projects are Qt
and OpenGL. My favorite language is Python, but I have also many years
of experience using C++, up to the current C++11 standard, CUDA and
OpenCL I have used successfully for my own and for customer projects.
Recently I became interested in web site development and grew fond of
Javascript. The web site you are visiting I designed myself with HTML
5,
CSS 3, Javascript, jQuery and Bootstrap. Some simple demos also use
Angular and jQueryUI.